Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Crean (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crean (Smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49756, -8.61223
- SMR number
- LI031-102----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In wet pasture field. Possible site surveyed in 2007 and described as a sunken sub-rectangular shaped marshy area (min. D. 0.5m) on E side of naturally raised ground. Possible sump or watering hole. Narrow channels cut into its sides at regular intervals to facilitate drainage. Non-antiquity. Clearly visible as a pond standing in quadrant of extensive field system on Google earth orthoimage dated 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 25 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/15 taken 13/09/2002
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.